Nice one. I asked the question what does it do. It either changes people funadamentally or it doesn't and that's the whole premise of my question--what does it do? You're a proponent for it, I'm not. I see it as either superfluous or controlling-there is no grey area for it. If it's superfluous then why do it? If it is not and it is controlling then don't do it.
Again, because Destroy and Control are worse.
So because I find it abhorrent that people goo is used to make reapers and that their minds are somehow assimilated into a reaper, you find my disgust of it abhorrent? Really. Dead is dead. And though there's debate as to when a person really is dead, it is very much at times both a societal understanding as well as an individual one. There are those who would not want their life extended artificially and that's an individual preference that is more often being respected. There's also a societal one that says if you kill a body and suck up its components, you've basically murdered a person. Any thing created to do specifically that or born and that does that through some mental defect is abhorrent. Jeffrey Dahmer believed he was being systematically abandoned by people and in order to keep them around, he'd eat them. Part of his belief was that he kept their essence with them. And he was born and became that-he was sick but also abhorrent and unable to change or be changed. What he'd done was done.
Disgust of the process and the actions to undertake it... that's fine. Where I draw the line is saying that, after the Reapers have been released from the Catalyst and are no longer doing this, indeed trying to repair the damage that the Catalyst had done before, that they still have no right to exist because of their physical composition.
Or perhaps you mean the hybridized organo-synthetics? I find the situation abhorrent and those so changed to be victims. I never saw anyone so changed as being worthy of scorn because I see them as being abused, having had tech of unknown origin inserted into them without their consent, that will by virtue of what it at minimum does, change them. We are as much individuals based upon our inner components as we are our outer facades-and as you said we are vastly different from each other even with a small variance in DNA that now exists. If you take two people who are now only say 10% different (this is just as an example) and add DNA to them, say that is 50% of their DNA-that's the same for everyone, you have just dramatically made them more similar. And the kid says it-it's the pinnacle of evolution, which means toward the end. Like the cheetah or any other creature on Earth that may go extinct because of too similar DNA.
No, I hadn't been referring to them.
You suspect the tech is so we can better interface with synthetics, except we (in the game) already had good ways to do so and didn't need tech in the DNA. Talking worked fairly well.
And fundamentally altering the nature of the geth in such a way that their minds now work completely differently.
And if harbinger's aim was a little off, and it was EDI who made it to the Crucibe?
Synthesis might not work regardless, but she wouldn't require destructive analysis to choose Control.
Or TIM arranged things a little differently, and it was Anderson who survived?
Destroy, very likely.
What if I don't want to be "upgraded"? What if I'm happy being as I am now? And "The Shepard" says otherwise?
Well, that depends. Would you prefer that another race be wiped out instead? Or would you prefer that Shepard becomes the Catalyst with full control of the Reapers?
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